Background

I have been working in different projects in biotechnology/chemical/food engineering in both upstream and downstream processes aiming for process optimization.

Education

PhD in Biotechnology, Lund University, Sweden (2009-2013)

M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering specialized in Biotechnology, Tarbiat Moddaress University, Tehran, Iran (1998-2001)

B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering specialized in Food industry, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran (1992-1997)

Research interest

Bioprocess engineering and food biorefinery technology for production of biobased chemicals and high value products from agricultural and marine resources

Process development for bioactive molecules, carbohydrates, proteins

Development and optimization of cultivation for probiotics and thermophiles

Analysis of carbohydrates, proteins, and bioactive molecules

Research project

Proteins from Oat: extraction, fractionation, and analysis (2018- up to present), collaboration between Lund university and Swedish industrial companies, ScanOats (Industrial Research Centre) http://www.scanoats.se/about-scanoats/

Bioprocess development of gut bacterial species Prevotella copri from serum bottle to bioreactor (2018-up to present), collaboration between Lund university and Swedish industrial company Aventure ab

Evaluation of thermophilic bacterium Rhodothermus marinus for metabolic constraints for growth, substrate utilization and product formation kinetics (2014-up to present), collaboration between Lund university and international industrial company Matis, Iceland

Evaluation of extraction of hemicellulose from sugarcane bagasse for production of xylo-oligosaccharides as prebiotics (2018- up to present), (International exchange PhD project)

Cascading marine macro algal biorefinery algae to high-value chemicals specially polyphenols and fucoidans (2017-up to present), Macrocascade (Bio-based industries joint undertaking: a €3.7 billion partnership between the EU and the Bio-based Industries Consortium) http://www.macrocascade.com/

Wheat bran refinery and fractionation of different valuable components (2015- 2017), collaboration between Lund university and Swedish industrial company Lantmännen

Biotechnological production, in-situ removal, and –conversion of 3-Hydroxypropionaldehyde (a platform chemical) to other valuable chemicals

Involved in downstream processing for separation of biologically produced organic acids

Teaching

KBTF15 Bioprocess Technology (Laboratory)

List of Selected Publications

Sardari, R.R.R., Sutiono, S., Abdul Azeem, H., Galbe, M., Larsson, M., Turner, C., Nordberg Karlsson, E., (2019) “Evaluation of sequential processing for the extraction of lipids, starch and proteins from wheat bran”, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. 7: 413

Roya R. R. Sardari and Eva Nordberg Karlsson., (2018) “Marine Poly- and Oligosaccharides as Prebiotics”, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 66: 11544-11549

Ron, E. Y. C., Sardari, R.R.R., Hreggviðssonb, G.,  van Niel, Ed., Nordberg Karlsson, E. (2019) “Cultivation technology development of Rhodothermus marinus DSM 16675”, Extremophiles. 23: 735–745

Sardari, R.R.R., Kulcinskaja, E., Ron, E., Björnsdóttirb, S., Friðjónssonb, O., Hreggviðssonb, G., Nordberg Karlsson, E., (2017) “Evaluation of production of exopolysaccharides by two strains of the thermophilic bacterium Rhodothermus marinus”, Carbohydrate polymer. 156:1–8

Sardari, R.R.R., Dishisha, T., Pyo, S.-H., Hatti-Kaul, R.; (2014) “Semicarbazide-functionalized resin as a new scavenger for in-situ recovery of 3-hydroxypropionaldehyde during biotransformation of glycerol by Lactobacillus reuteri”, Journal of Biotechnology. 192:223-230

Sardari, R.R.R., Dishisha, T., Pyo, S.-H., Hatti-Kaul, R., (2013) “Improved production of 3-hydroxypropionaldehyde by complex formation with bisulfite during biotransformation of glycerol”, Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 110:1243-1248

Sardari, R.R.R., Dishisha, T., Pyo, S.-H., Hatti-Kaul, R., (2013) “Biotransformation of glycerol to 3-hydroxypropionaldehyde: improved production by in situ complexation with bisulfite in a fed-batch mode and separation on anion exchanger”, Journal of Biotechnology. 168:534–542

Sardari, R.R.R., (2013) “Bio-based C-3 Platform chemical; Biotechnological Production and –Conversion of 3-Hydroxypropionaldehyde”, PhD thesis.

Contact:

Phone: +46 46 222 8157

Email: roya.sardari@biotek.lu.se